From G. J. Romanes [c. 19 March 1876]1
I write to thank you for the copy of the new edition of the ‘Variation’ which I received a few days ago. I am very glad to see that you have thought my views about rudimentary organs worth a place, and that you speak so well of them.2
The chapter on Pangenesis is admirable.3 The case is so strong, that it makes me more anxious than ever to get positive results in this year’s experiments. I mean there seems less doubt than ever that such results must be obtainable if one hammers long enough. I did not know that there were so many cases of graft-hybridisation in potatoes.4 Perhaps it will be better this year to give one’s main energies to other vegetables.
I find that a German, Dr. Eimer, is on the scent of the jelly-fish, but he does not seem to have done much work as yet.5 It is arranged that I am to have a Friday evening at the Institution soon after Easter, to tell the people about my own work.6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Eimer, Theodor. 1874. Ueber künstliche Theilbarkeit von Aurelia aurita und Cyanea capillata in physiologische Individuen. Verhandlungen der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft in Würzburg n.s. 6: 137–61.
Eimer, Theodor. 1877. Ueber künstliche Theilbarkeit und über das Nervensystem der Medusen. [Read 21 September 1877.] Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie 14: 394–408.
Romanes, George John. 1876. The physiology of the nervous system of medusae. [Read 28 April 1876.] Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 8 (1875–8): 166–77.
Variation 2d ed.: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10421F
- From
- George John Romanes
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10421F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10421F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24